Justworks Review

Justworks is a cloud-based HR platform that provides benefits, payroll, compliance support, employee onboarding, and HR tools for small to mid-sized companies. It also acts as a professional employer organization or PEO.

Review:

Justworks acts as a PEO and offers support for payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance. With Justworks, employers will have access to health insurance and fitness memberships for their employees at more affordable rates. Justworks will also aid employers in remaining compliant with workers' compensation, W-2 and 1099 filings, employment practices liability, and unemployment insurance filings.

Justworks has also developed HRIS tools to assist employers with managing paid time off, onboarding new employees, storing important documents, and tracking business metrics. Certified HR consultants are also made available to Justworks users to provide guidance on best practices for managing leaves of absence, onboarding and terminating employees, managing overtime, and improving employee happiness.

Justworks Payroll Review: Users of Justworks can enjoy all of the standard payroll features, such as the ability to pay hourly and salaried employees, calculate multiple pay rates, and do deductions and payroll reports.

Justworks payroll is comparable to our top-rated payroll software Gusto and Zenefits. However, users looking for built-in timesheets, time-tracking integrations, paperless employee onboarding, or employee databases will need to turn to Justworks' closest competitors, CheckMark and PayWindow Payroll, which offer some of these features and are also more affordable.

Justworks PEO Review: Justworks is a mid-ranking PEO that offers a range of HR services such as employee onboarding, an employee handbook, a company directory, and a company calendar. Justworks does not, however, offer supervisor training, which one of our top-ranking PEOs, Oasis Outsourcing, does.

Justworks also provides hiring support with employment law compliance guidance and administration assistance but does not offer applicant screening tools or compensation and benefits package development.

Justworks offers a full range of employee benefits, such as 401(k) contributions, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, ACA filing, COBRA administration, and direct deposit, beating our top-ranking PEO, ADP, with its range. Justworks also offers a competitive range of payroll features, as seen above, but does not offer job costing, tip allocation, or ERISA reports.

In risk and compliance management, Justworks provides assistance with W-2 and 1099 filing, workers' compensation, unemployment administration, and OSHA compliance instruction, as well as providing a dedicated help center for risk management compliance. However, Justworks does not provide insurance consulting.

While Justworks' monthly fees range from $33.00 to $99.00 per employee per month depending on the plan and billing frequency, CheckMark charges a one-time fee of $429.00 or $499.00 for the license, and PayWindow Payroll has a first-time purchase fee of $89.95 and thereafter an annual upgrade fee of just $45.00. You can also compare Justworks to our top-rated payroll software Gusto, with pricing from $39.00 per month plus $6.00 per employee per month, and Zenefits, with prices from $8.00 plus $6.00 per employee per month.

With its full and competitive range of features, Justworks is an effective HR solution that takes care of not only your payroll, but also offers HR, benefits, and compliance support. It also pays your payroll taxes under its company name. This means that Justworks will keep our business compliant with all federal, state, and local employment regulations and taxes so that you can focus on running your business without stressing about staying on top of ever-changing governmental regulations.